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APOD: Tau Herculids from Space

On May 31 tens of parallel meteor streaks were recorded in this 8 degree wide field of view of planet Earth's limb from space. The image is one of a series of 5 minute long observations by the orbiting Yangwang-1 space telescope. It was captured at 03:43 UT, near the peak of the Tau Herculid meteor shower. As predicted, the meteor shower was an active one this year, caused as Earth swept through a relatively dense stream of debris from disintegrating Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, but was lacking bright meteors. Nearly all of the Tau Herculid meteors in the Yangwang-1 image are too faint to be detected by groundbased instruments. But on that date patient earthbound skywatchers under clear skies still enjoyed a memorable showing of the Tau Herculids. via NASA https://ift.tt/vWqUuRF

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Space News: NASA to Highlight Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets TV Coverage

https://ift.tt/VgHdvsr NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:22 a.m. EDT Friday, June 10, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/wV02Fa6 https://ift.tt/VgHdvsr from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: NASA Announces Winners of 2022 Student Launch Competition

https://ift.tt/VgHdvsr For the second year in a row, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte won the launch division, while Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, won first place in the design division of NASA’s 2022 Student Launch rocketry competition. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/fEtKBNo https://ift.tt/VgHdvsr from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: NASA Invites Media to Learn About Mission Studying Thunderstorms

https://ift.tt/VgHdvsr NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. CDT Tuesday, June 7, to discuss research about intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States and their effects on Earth’s atmosphere and climate change. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/MA2CLw6 https://ift.tt/VgHdvsr from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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APOD: A 10 000 Kilometer Galactic Bridge

With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern hemisphere skies. To construct the expansive composite nightscape, skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top) were imaged on the same date but 6 hours later than the skies over the Saint-Veran observatory in the French Alps. The 6 hour time-lag allowed Earth's rotation to align the Milky Way above domes at the two sites. All exposures were made with similar cameras and lenses mounted on simple tripods. A faint greenish airglow is visible in the dark Chilean sky that also features the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds near the observatory dome. In the French Alps light pollution is apparent, but the distant Andromeda Galaxy can still be spotted near the horizon in the northern night. On planet Earth the two observatories are separated by about 10,000 kilometers. via NASA https://ift.tt/Gw0bLzd

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Space News: NASA Funds Projects that Aim to Inspire Artemis Generation

https://ift.tt/6Jwgche NASA has selected a variety of projects that take innovative approaches to broadening student participation in science, technology, engineering, and math to receive awards totaling approximately $12.5 million. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/RWMNyD9 https://ift.tt/6Jwgche from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon

https://ift.tt/6Jwgche Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/SeIZOAp https://ift.tt/6Jwgche from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: NASA Invites Media to Headquarters to Meet Commercial Crew Astronauts

https://ift.tt/6Jwgche NASA will host an in-person media opportunity at 8:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 7, at NASA Headquarters in Washington with the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts to discuss their recent mission aboard the International Space Station to benefit life on Earth and further exploration. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/jGFqr2f https://ift.tt/6Jwgche from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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APOD: Lunar Occultation of Venus

On May 27 Venus rose as the morning star, near the waning crescent Moon in a predawn sky already full of planets. It was close on the sky to the Moon's crescent and a conjunction of the second an third brightest celestial beacons were enjoyed by skygazers around the world. But seen from locations along a track through southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean the Moon actually passed in front of Venus in a lunar occultation. In this animated gif the 75 percent illuminated disk of Venus approaches and just begins to disappear behind the sunlit southwestern lunar limb. The telescopic frames used to construct it were captured from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean around 4:50am local time, with the Moon and Venus very close to the eastern horizon. At the time Venus was over 180 million kilometers from Reunion Island, compared to a lunar distance of a mere 400 thousand kilometers or so. About 50 minutes later Venus emerged from behind the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/KE1BaZe

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Space News: NASA Administrator to Launch Artemis Learning Lunchbox Initiative

https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is helping kick off a new initiative to deliver food and hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math kits, called Learning Lunchboxes, in Orlando at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 3. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/x5U43Vq https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: Científicas de la NASA disponibles para entrevistas sobre huracanes

https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK La temporada de huracanes en el océano Atlántico comienza hoy, 1 de junio, y se extiende hasta el 30 de noviembre, y la NASA está preparada una vez más para ayudar a entender y vigilar las tormentas desde su singular atalaya desde el espacio. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/fPiOo1t https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: NASA Partners with Industry for New Spacewalking, Moonwalking Services

https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/ifymjK2 https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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Space News: NASA Scientists Available for 2022 Hurricane Season Interviews

https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season begins today, June 1, and runs through Nov. 30 and NASA is once again prepared to help understand and monitor storms from its unique vantage point of space. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/hdGIAO8 https://ift.tt/Dr8VHBK from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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APOD: Tau Herculids Meteors over Kitt Peak Telescopes

It wasn't the storm of the century -- but it was a night to remember. Last night was the peak of the Tau Herculids meteor shower, a usually modest dribble of occasional meteors originating from the disintegrating Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. This year, calculations showed that the Earth might be passing through a particularly dense stream of comet debris -- at best creating a storm of bright meteors streaking out from the constellation of Hercules. What actually happened fell short of a meteor storm, but could be called a decent meteor shower. Featured here is a composite image taken at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA accumulated over 2.5 hours very late on May 30. Over that time, 19 Tau Herculids meteors were captured, along with 4 unrelated meteors. (Can you find them?) In the near foreground is the Bok 2.3-meter Telescope with the 4.0-meter Mayall Telescope just behind it. Next year, the annual Tau Herculids are expected to return to its normal low rate, with the next active night forecast for 2049. via NASA https://ift.tt/uEdBXjz

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Space News: NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Space Station Cargo Launch, Docking

https://ift.tt/nJosS3q NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station. from NASA Breaking News https://ift.tt/6sROKBe https://ift.tt/nJosS3q from Blogger Expedition Space: Space Launch, Events, News

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APOD: Rocket Transits Rippling Sun

The launch of a rocket at sunrise can result in unusual but intriguing images that feature both the rocket and the Sun. Such was the case last month when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center carrying 53 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. In the featured launch picture, the rocket's exhaust plume glows beyond its projection onto the distant Sun, the rocket itself appears oddly jagged, and the Sun's lower edge shows peculiar drip-like ripples. The physical cause of all of these effects is pockets of relatively hot or rarefied air deflecting sunlight less strongly than pockets relatively cool or compressed air: refraction. Unaware of the Earthly show, active sunspot region 3014 -- on the upper left -- slowly crosses the Sun. via NASA https://ift.tt/egyCfun

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APOD: Red Crepuscular Rays from an Eclipse

What's happening behind that island? Things both expected and unexpected. Expected, perhaps, the pictured rays of light -- called crepuscular rays -- originate from the Sun. Unexpected, though, the Sun was being partially eclipsed by the Moon at the time -- late last month. Expected, perhaps, the Sun's rays are quite bright as they shine through gaps in below-horizon clouds. Unexpected, though, the crepuscular rays are quite red, likely the result an abundance of aerosols in Earth's atmosphere scattering away much of the blue light. Expected, with hope, a memorable scene featuring both the Moon and the Sun, superposed. Unfortunately, from this location -- in Uruguay looking toward Argentina -- clouds obscured the eclipse -- which wasn't completely unexpected. However, after packing up to go home, the beauty of bright red crepuscular rays emerged -- quite unexpectedly. Oh -- and that island on the horizon -- it's really two islands. via NASA https://ift.tt/kAb4dQ6

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